Oppressing White America

This is gong to be a response post to one of my classmate's blog entries. @magnificentmelanin7 shared this short and powerful quote, and I really want to discuss it a bit, because overall equality is always my main goal, and privilege is a word I must throw in people's faces eight times a day.

“When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression”

-Unknown

I think this is really the most basic, underlying issue in society right now. I really do.. Obviously there is the lingering racism, and the difference in political opinions, a lack of cultural sensitivity, plenty of hatred, but I think what this quote is getting at is a BIG issue. What it means to be a white American, is not much. White Americans typically do not have much cultural background, we're white, that's our culture. We are not labeled with extraordinary gifts as a race (primarily because that's something we did to other races while we were oppressing them but that's a story for another day). We have everything in the world (or America) that we could want, but we have it for one reason only, our privilege. And I think that even the most boondocks, bottom of the barrel hillbilly knows it. And I think this is the closest America has ever gotten to equality. We're pushing this nation to it's LIMIT, and while it's exciting for those who thirst for equality, it's impending on the most basic thing that White Americans have held on to over the years. After desegregation and Jim Crowe, one thing remained. White Americans retained their privilege in America to continue to oppression of their cultural counterparts. But the threat of that being taken away, and make no mistake, we are going to be the generation that TAKES IT AWAY, is utterly terrifying to White America. And I genuinely feel like that's what is at the bottom of the majority of our racial issues today.. White America is fighting tooth and nail to hold on to their last bit of privilege, and we are pushing it out, and it's White America's first exposure to what feels like oppression.

#Tabatha